2017 Vespidae Pinot Noir
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Score 93/100 · Drink 2023-2030, Josh Raynolds, Aug 2020
Brilliant red. Powerful, spice-tinged red and blue fruit and potpourri scents show excellent clarity and pick up suggestions of licorice and cola with air. Sweet and expansive in the mouth, offering juicy black raspberry and cherry flavors that display appealing spiciness and an energizing undercurrent of smoky minerality. Concentrated yet lively in style, closing long and sweet, with fine-grained tannins coming in slowly. 27% new French oak.
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93/100
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92
92/100
James Suckling
93
93/100
Josh Raynolds
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James Suckling
Score 92/100 · James Suckling, May 2019
A very complex and earthy pinot with sophisticated, layered, spicy and earthy complexity, across ripe red cherries and blueberries. The palate has a superbly plush, elegantly structured yet richly flavored feel. So silky. Drink or hold.
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